With only two months to go until the most wonderful time of the year, Christmas preparations are in full swing across Wales. A large part of the early festivities is the switching on of Christmas ...

Professor Małgorzata Karpińska from the History Institute of the University of Warsaw tells us about Christmas decorations, practices, dishes and traditions in 19th century Warsaw. Marta Jaszczuk: ...

Forty years ago, Wales woke up on Christmas Eve to the start of a very white Christmas. The extremely cold weather started in 1981 and did not let up until early February. In Corwen, Denbighshire ...

Until the reformation, song schools in the Roman church tradition seem to have flourished, but from Tudor times onwards - particularly with the exodus of musicians from Wales to the English court ...

By 1640, an Act of the Parliament of Scotland made celebrating the "Yule vacance" illegal, as many of the traditions were viewed as too extravagant by the church. Instead of celebrating Christmas ...

HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Kate Middleton is keeping up a new Christmas tradition! On Friday, the Princess of Wales stepped out at Westminster Abbey for the third annual holiday carol concert.

Until the reformation, song schools in the Roman church tradition seem to have flourished, but from Tudor times onwards - particularly with the exodus of musicians from Wales to the English court ...